Isaeus, On The Estate of Ciron, Edward Seymour Forster (Translator), 41

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[41] When the husbands of two of the sisters tried to obtain possession of their fortune, he imprisoned the husband of the eldest of them by walling him up¹ and by a plot deprived him of his civic rights, and though he was indicted for outrage he has not yet been punished. As for the husband of the next sister, he ordered a slave to kill him and smuggled away the murderer, and then threw the guilt upon his sister,

On The Estate of Ciron. Isaeus. Edward Seymour Forster (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1962.

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On The Estate of Ciron (English) (Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).)

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Περὶ τοῦ Κίρωνος κλήρου Perseus (Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).) — 41 focus

[41] τοῖν δʼ ἀδελφαῖν τοῖν¹ δυοῖν ἐπειδὴ τὰ χρήματα εἰσεπράττετο ὑπὸ τῶν ἐκείναις συνοικούντων, τὸν μὲν τὴν πρεσβυτέραν ἔχοντα κατοικοδομήσας καὶ ἐπιβουλεύσας ἠτίμωσε, καὶ γραφὴν ὕβρεως γραφεὶς οὐδέπω τούτων δίκην δέδωκε,² τῆς δὲ μετʼ ἐκείνην γενομένης τὸν ἄνδρα ἀποκτεῖναι κελεύσας οἰκέτην ἐκεῖνον μὲν ἐξέπεμψε, τὴν δʼ αἰτίαν εἰς τὴν ἀδελφὴν ἔτρεψε,

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1. The reading οἰκοδομήσας is supported by Hippocration, s.v. (i.q. κατακλεῖν εἰς οἴκημα), but the meaning is uncertain. Possibly Diocles forcibly detained his brother-in-law from performing some duty to the state and thus caused his disenfranchisement.

Isaeus On The Estate of Ciron 41

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